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Table 4 Residential status, canned foods, and food storage in plastics as potential predictors of (log transformed) urinary BPA concentrations (ng/mL)

From: Urinary bisphenol A concentrations in girls from rural and urban Egypt: a pilot study

 

β

95% CI

p-value

% change

Residential Statusa

-0.072

[-0.577,0.434]

0.777

-6.95%

Residential Statusb

-0.073

[-0.600,0.455]

0.783

-7.04%

Canned Food Usea

0.365

[-0.118,0.848]

0.136

44.05%

Canned Food Useb

0.394

[-0.108,0.895]

0.121

62.42%

Food Storage in Plastica

0.552

[0.007,1.097]

0.047*

73.67%

Food Storage in Plasticb

0.546

[-0.012,1.105]

0.055

72.63%

Food Storage in Plasticc

0.626

[0.043,1.210]

0.036*

87.01%

  1. aAdjusted for specific gravity
  2. bAdjusted for specific gravity, BMI, and age
  3. cAdjusted for all other covariates (specific gravity, BMI, age, residential status, plastic storage, and canned food)
  4. *Significance at p-value < 0.05; predictors were run separately for models a, b, and c